Free virtual screening of the documentary film "The Palestine Exception"

Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zrg7aP-fRJK5_Y71pNK-Xw#/registration

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s genocide on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.

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CALL TO ACTION

1) Email Congress: Urge your members of congress to co-sponsor legislation to block additional lethal weapons sales to the Israeli military.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/tell-congress-block-the-bombs/

2) Tell Universities: Protect Student Rights, Reject Trump's Order
http://uscpr.org/protectstudents

3) Contact the White House, your Senators and Representative and urge them to:

✅ [FOR SENATORS] Cosponsor & vote YES on S.J.Res.20-23 to block weapons shipments
✅ [FOR REPRESENTATIVE] Cosponsor & vote YES on H.J.Res.68-70 to block weapons shipments
✅ Support an immediate arms embargo on all military aid to Israel
✅ Enforce U.S. laws that prohibit military funding for human rights violations
✅ Push for real ceasefire compliance, including ending the blockade on Gaza so rebuilding can begin
✅ Push for unobstructed humanitarian aid access to Gaza & the West Bank

White House Comment Line
Open Tuesday & Thursday 11am-3pm EST
Comment Line (202) 456-1111
Switchboard (202) 456-1414
Email Contact Page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Senator Alex Padilla
(202) 224-3553 DC office
Senator Padilla's other office locations: (415) 981-9369 San Francisco office; (916) 448-2787 Sacramento office, (559) 497-5109 Fresno office; (310) 231-4494 LA office; (619) 239-3884 San Diego office
Email Contact Page: https://www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

Senator Adam Schiff
(202) 224-3841 DC office
Email: Schiff_California [at] schiff.senate.gov
Website: https://www.schiff.senate.gov/

Congressional Switchboard
(202) 224-3121
Contact your Representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

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BOYCOTT

Boycott Captain America: Brave New World and Snow White! https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/e8ede1e3adbb1594506b2558ae0ab689a92fcdee/

USACBI boycott Israel Philharmonic
https://usacbi.org/2025/01/stop-israels-concerto-macabre-boycott-the-israel-philharmonic-2025-us-tour/

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DIVESTMENT

Learn about municipal strategies from the BNC - “Your city can join the BDS Movement”
https://bdsmovement.net/Your-City-Can-Join-The-BDS-Movement

Are There Human Rights Violations Hidden in Your Investments?
https://investigate.info/